The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-22 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent -garden. There will both in this week and in next wee be five oera nights, viz., Monday, Tuesda.v, Thursday, k Friday, p and batarday Extra Night. Mdlle. Feed, Madame Didiee ; M. Faure, Signor Ciampi, Signor Ronconi, Herr Schmid, and Signor Tamberlik. ' TO- MO 11 tiOW EVEN ENG (Thursday', June 23, will be performed, for the last time but one this season, Mozart's opera, in two acts, DON GIOVANNI, with the lollowng powerful clot :—Donna Anna, Mdlle. Fricci ; Zerlina, Mdme. Didiee ; Ely:l . a, Madame Rudersdorff; Dun Giovanni, M. Faure ; Leporello, Signor Ciampi ; Masetto, Signor Itonconi; Ii Commeudatore, Herr Schmid; and Don Ottavio, signor amberli k. The minuet will be danced by Mdlle. Salvioni and M. esplaces, Conductor, Mr. Costa. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 75. ; amphitheatre rta Is, 103. ed., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre:2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-offic under the portico of the tnewre, whiel is apen from tea to five, and at, the principal musicsell,rs' and librarians'. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last Two :Weeks of the Subcription. GRAND EXTRA. NIGHT. Third Appearance of Madame Harriers-Tvippern, ROBERT LE DIABLE. THIS EVENIN.3- (Wednesday:, June 22, will be performed Itleyerbeer's chef-d*ceuvre, ROBERT LE DIABLE. Signori Gardoni, Bettini, Fricca first appearance this sea son), Gassier, tiossi ; Mesdames Liebhart, Morlacchi, and Harriers-Wippern (third appearance in r ngland). Conductor, Signor ARDIrI. Commence at Half-past Eight. To-morrow Evening, (Thursd June 23d.—Positive Pro duction of Fir) EL 10. Friday Morning next, June 24th.— Grand Combined Per formance in &Id of the Funds of the Royal Academy of Music Saturday, June 25th.—Second Night of FIDELIO. otiv. —Goenod's celebrated O p era, FAUST, will Shortly be re,,eated. Pit Tickets, 7s. ; Reserved Box Seats, 10s, 6d. ; Amphi theatr3 Stalls, ss. and 75. ; Gallery, 2s. 6d. ; Private Bexes, in the. Upper Lirele, 215. Box Office of the Theatre open daily, from 10 till 6, where places may be secured ; also at Mitchell's, Bubb's, Lacon and Oilier's, Bond - s treet ; Leader's, Opera Colonnade ; Sam's, St. James's -street ; Cramer, Wood, and Co.'s, and Hammond's, Vegent-street ; Keith, Prowse, and Co.'s, Cheapside ; and at appell and Co.'s, 50, New Bond-street. I-I- ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FRIDAY MORNING NEXT, June 2ith, GRAND PERFORMANCE (S:nder the Most Illustrious Patronage), combining all the Eminent Artis es, Orchestra, and Chorus of Her Majesty's Theatre, in AID of the FUNDS of the ROYAL ACADI. 7 MY of MUSIC. Doors open at half-past One. Commence at Two o'clock precisely. Prices : —Grand Tier Boxes, £4 4s. ; One Pair, £3 3s. ; Pit Boxes, £3 s. ; Two Pair, £2 12s. 61. ; Halt-Circle Boxes, £1 15. ; Orchestra Stalls, each, £1 ls. ; Reserved Box Seats, les. 6d. ; Amphitheatre Stalls, Ps. and ss. ; I'it, ss. ; Gallery, 2s. 6d. - Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may bo had at the Box-office of the Theatre, open aily from ten ti.l THEATRE ROYAL H AYM ARKET.- dole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weathersby, &c. ; Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. Followed by (for: the oth time) LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR. To conclude with TURNLNG THE TABLES. Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, &c. Commence at 7. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Last 4 sights of Hamlet and the present Season. Mr. FECHTER will perform HAMLE I' THIS EVENING (Wednesday). Claudius, Mr. Emery ; Polonius, Mr. John Brougham ; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan ; Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden heft ; Horatio, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedigger, Mr. H. Widdieomb ; Osric, Mr. Charles ; Messrs. W 31`Intyre, F. Morton, Raymond, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall bank, Collett ; Ophelia, Miss Kate Terry ; Actress, Miss 31 Benrade ; and Gertruie, Miss Elsworthy. The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open at half -past 7, and Hamlet com- Mences at 8. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING will be performed a new and original Drama, by R. Slous, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW. Mr. D. Mtrray, D. Fisher, .1. W. Itay, J. Nelson, &c.; Miss Stafford and Jiil33 Caroline Carson. Atter which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louis and Fabien dei Franchi, Mr. Vining ; Chateau Renathl, Mr. NValter Lacy. ryr EW THEATRE-RU YAL, ADELPHI.- VI sale Proprl4tor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. H. Phillips. Followed by THE DEAD HEART: Robert Landry (his original character), Mr. Benjamin Webster, ,uppo ted by Messrs. A. Stitling, J. L. Toole, T. Stuart, Caul Bedford, B.llington; Miss Woolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Miss Kelly, After which, TfIE AREA BELLE, with a Norrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Too:e, P. Bedford, it. Itomer3llaa Woolgar, and Mrs. 11. Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, nader the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Ccmtdy, by Dion Boucicauit,N sq., every Evening. Re engagenientof those ce ebraced and popular artistes, Mr an I — iirs. Charles Mathew. Amongst the artists engaged win. be found the popular nßraes of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr.. , . Clarke, Mr. Paul lledCord, Mr. F. itobinson, Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. ',Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirring. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Miss Herbert. At a quarter before S, an entirely new and orielnal Comely, in 5 acts, by Dion Boucicault, entitled THE FOX CHACE. Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash ey, Mr. W. Cbamoer laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Henrietta:Simms. At 10, by particular desire, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. - To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke; Miss Fanny Josephs. _ Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. IV. H. Swanborough. THI3 EVENING, DEAF AS A POST. Mr. Thorne. Followed by THE MAID OF HONOUR. Miss Ada wanborouh. After whish, MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, James, Fenton, Turner, &c. ; Misses Marie Wilton, Simpson, &c. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. Mr. •T. Thorn•. Commence at 7. PARIS BONNE rs for JUNE.—Messrs. JAY'S Manager has h - s day returned from Paris with an Issortment of th,p most eleg,,mt and fashionable Summer Bonnets, sele c t e d f rom the raagasins of the first houses in that city, JAY'S, The London General Mourning Warehouse, .Tune 1, 1 5G1. 217 , 219, and 251, Regent-street. NOVEL STYLE FRENCH BONNETS. French fashion has produced Bonnets for this month o f a light go earner texture, which ace inamodate the present style of wearing an aisplayi the lady's h ir They are of the most exquisite variety, and, though still zulhering to the favourite colours of black. white, and neutral, are entirely remodelled in shape, size, and substance. Spe,ially imported from Pari s for JAY'S, The Le - k:on General ,51 miming Warehouse, 217, 449, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHAL CONIPANy's COALS . .. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 239. per ton. Double.. ....... 20 a. p er ton. I Top 225. „ Detp Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Weetbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharl, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENcE, an be had Eery Evening of CiLhNIE, N - crirs AGENT, No. 4. Connaught- terrace, rlyde-park. ne Weather—sun Oflice, June 22, 1861. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.05, WIND—S. ; light breeze, and cloudy at times, HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan D4T . — tiorn . :ng, 3h. 32m.—Afternocn, 3h. 5Sm. ro-mozaow.-I.loraing, 4a. 17m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40m. _ ?*" "7 .2 . 1tr, it L. ... A Sun, V..).NDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1864. Everything givee plainer and pl a i ner indication that the Government have certainly muddled their Foreign Policy—but more particularly their Foreign Policy in tho matter of this miserable Dano-German war—to perfection ! They hare dins it now —with a vengeance ! But—the vengeance will come to them and not from th e m, It will come to them both in the Lords and the Commons. Acd not alone from the side of the Opposition. Patriotic and independent Peers on the Liberal side of the House of Lords, like Earl GREY, will, at this juncture, we may rest perfectly well assures', be quite as uncompr,mising'rutspeken as the E,rl of DERBY himself, the Leader of the CJLservative Opposition. Patriotic and indepen dent representatives of the people, again, ranged on the Ministerial side of the House of Com mons—such a thoroughly out-speaking M,P., let us say, as Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE—wiII seize the opportunity now, we may be certain of that, quite as readily, Trite as eagerly to condemn this meddling and muddling of Earl RUSSELL'S as be tween the Danes and the Germans, quite as readily, quite as eagerly as the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire. Why do we say this, and thus confidently, upon the very day set apart for the sitting of the Conference here in London ? Because, s i m ply, upon this vary day, the worst anticipations es to what would ensue from all this pottering and procrastination, from all these delays and mystifications have, so far as any reasonable human being can j Idge, been to the full realised. Oa the wings of the lightning, the telegram comes to us this afternoon from Frankfort-ou-the-Main, from the old Imperial capital of Germany—and it comes thus and thence as ominously as though in a rolling crash of thunder, heralding a general war in Europe. " Prussia," says the Telegram, " rejects the English proposals relative to the line of demarcation in Schleswig. She also rejects the arbitration of any Power represented at the Conference. Prussia will not recognise the decision of any arbitrator as binding, but will take it into consideration." There is talk, too, about Prussia's readiness to accede to any pro posal for a prolongation of the armistice—but, in that event for a prolongation of not less than two months. Prussia saying this probably from a consciousness that any prolongation of the armistice, much less a prolongation of it for a couple of months, it would be impossible to obtain Denmark's consent to 7 . Wherefore Prussia babbles about it with an air of safe magnaniarity. "It is believed," adds the Frankfort telegram, " that the last sitting of the Conference will take place to-day, and that hosti lities will commence on Monday. The armistice terminating in due course, that is on Sun day ! From Vienna meanwhile comes another intimation indicative of Austria's readiness (if she can only find a plausible excuse for it!) to back out of a war threatening, at last, to become complicated into, what must prove for her, very formidable dimensions! The Kaiser's hinted wish now being to have the matter here in dispute, so far as it relates to Austria, sub mitted to the arbitration of the Emperor NAPOLEON. Not to the arbitration of England, observe—Eng• land, so "fallen from her high estate" under the regime of Earl RUSSELL—but to the arbitration of NAPOLEON ! Here, however, the suggestion is blurted out merely throughsemi-official channels. The notion of arbitration being simultaneously rejected befirehand by Prussia—supp'lsing that arbitra tion to be one dreamt of by any Crowned head re presented at the board of this abortive Conference. Altogether, a charming prospect! For which we are indebted mainly, if not solely, to our own Govern ment. A prospect, in one phrase, be it said, of con fusion worse confounded. It is satisfactory to find that the " Gaols Bill' has been read a second time. It would be very provoking if another session were lost and more time wasted without coming to any definite settle ment of this question, and making any alterations in a system which so imperatively calls for change. Sir GEORGE GREY showed great discretion in con senting to some of the changes that were proposed and thus avoiding the chance of being defeated in his attempt to get the bill through this stage. It is true that there was a division, but not one which involved any risk. The difficulties that lie in the way of these changes are very great, and one of the chief obstacles is found in the fact that the mention of the case always brings forth the latent prejudices and excites the angry criticism of those who must find some fault, and are resolved to put their veto upon the proceedings in some eleape or other. Si r G. GREY'S statement was a sensible exposition of the matter. There are few subjects of legislation which offer more comr:iication than those connected with prisons, but t;nat is no reason why some reme dial change sheguld not be effected. ," Hard labour" has engaged, much of the attention of the committee of the Ilsease of Lords, and there seems valid grounds fur their endeavers to arbitrate on that point. They reeommended that there should be a strict defini tion of the term, and this is only reasonable, and a change greatly called for, since it has been found on examination that this part of the discipline has been very much neglected. Mr. ADDERLEY laid great stress on this, and very truly declared that it was imperative to make a decided definition. It is well known to all attentive observers of the subject that if some impassable barriers are not put up advantage will be taken in every direction, and that virtually the effect of discipline is nullified by the introduction of change, and the laxity too generally observed. It is shocking to contemplate the pictures drawn by those who have visited some of those gaols, and to think of the criminal taking his ease, as it were, while honest poverty is toiling without the prison wall, and wearing out strength, health, and spirits in the weary struggle for -, z i st , ence. Doubtless from the best motives P. - a d ac t uate d by the kindest feelings, some `';ell-meaning but mistaken individuals have teen very instrumental in affording the prisone'ls every possible relaxation from their toil, 0- ed also in giving them many l uzuries whiffo, properly speaking, they should never enje,y. It is only by the exercise of a firm 7 111 and the interposition of a strong hand that .nose anom a li es can b e rectified, and this very tin suitable state of affairs ameliorated. It is well that Mr, ADDERLEY made such a strong point of " hard l a bour," as that doubtless tended in a great measure ti".) ensure the fulfilment of the designs of the Com considerably in diff e rent mittee. After varyi ng only is su c h e. course subversive of dis places, in some prisons h ard labour meant nothing at all. Not to do. Mr. AD DERLEY also insisted c ipline, but it is also most rksorne for a pri soner t o conformity fo s rm have i have nothing on th e necessity for uniformity among the gaols, certainly ai oly expressed fol l follow scfro pi his opinion iointhat good re su lt s would practice. As things ty hitherto been arranged there seems no o m to rules, and " in a considerable number of gaols there were no rules at all, and some rulesco nta i ned every possible absurdity that could come into the head of the wildest theorist." This is sure to be the ease where attention is not paid to orders—dise crepancies will creep in, and, finally, no one could recognise the proportions of the system as it was originally devised, previously to the omissions and corruptions that have been gradually introduced and fostered. It is not the question whether the present plan will be more convenient, more com fortable, or more practicable; but whether it will more efficiently carry out the purpose which it should effect, and more fully develope the scheme of reformation, or at all events of discipline, which it should be cne of the first objects of all imprison ment to realise. Those who cavil at the change pro posed, and animadvert upon the prospect of this alteration, seem to partially ignore, if not entirely to overlook the fact, that the present system is about as faulty as it can possibly be. It is rife with in consistencies, teems with improprie es, abounds in absurdities, and altogether has been a reproach to our lawgivers, and a grievance to the community. If the plan is simplified, and the several prisons and gaols are managed in a more uniform system, it is certain that the task of supervision will be simplified, and the general process rendered more satisfactory. Besides, if these changes are not deemed sufficient, when carried into effect, it will be easy to make an addition or alteration hereafter in practice, but no mistake can be greater than co do nothing in the way of practical interference and reformatory legislation. The effect produced on all cusses would be generally detrimental, while among the prisoners it would exercise a very perni cious influence. Oa all accounts, then, it seems satisfactory that Sir G. GREY has succeeded in so fir carrying this Bill through Parliament, and the moderation he has displayed affords a good hope that he will be able to see it become law before the close of the present session, It is a curious subject for the attentive observer to speculate upon, this difficulty that we have bad in the management of our convicts and prisoners of late years, and the solution will not be readily arrived at. At all events, it shows that there is not progress every where, and that, with all our boasted resources, we often make mistakes and fail to realise results as our forefathers did. It is called a safe extreme one, but experience has shown it to be a very dangerous one to persist in modifying the severity of all prison laws until the dwellers therein come to regard the whole affair very much in the light of a nonentity. The old proverb respec'ing the month of March has been strikingly exemplified in the case of the Government Annuities Bill. On its first introduc tion the Chancellor of the Exchequer explained its provisions with his wonted eloquence and ability, but in the course of his exposition he made such strong remarks upon the general management of friendly societies, and brought in so many per• sonalities, that a storm of opposition was forthwith raised both within and without the doors of the House. Hon. members who had been in any way connected with such societies seemed to regard the bill as ,an aspersion on their characters, and they were accordingly ready with word and vote to offer it all the opposition in their power, Outside the Parliamentary walls private interests were not less busy in organising a formidable opposition. Public meetings were got up, and working men were induced to believe that a measure designed wholly and solely for the benefit of themselves and their families was nothing but an unwarrantable attack upon their constitutional liberties. Happily, all has passed away under the magic of a select com mittee, and Monday evening saw the bill which had given occasion to so much attack and defence, mutual recrimination, charges and counter-charges, pass through its final stage, amidst nothing but courtesies and congratulations, exchanges of com pliments, and expressions of goodwill. It is true that some important additions have been made to the measure, and some modifications of it have improved its power and substance ; but the principle apon which it was originally founded remains the same, now that it has become law, anti consequently there is good reason to congratulate the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the country at large on so valuable an addition to our legislation. The fact is that the bill was so much needed, it offered such valuable facilities to the working man for se curing the independence of his family, it tends so much to protect him against the fraudulent or im provident application of his hard-earned 89: , : inge, that when impartial and well-qualic d judges began to examine into its structure there could be but little doubt of the result. It shows the diffe lxv,asure and a sche me f or rence between a party the national good, irrespective of political conside rations. When 4 ...ae angry feelings too ras hl y an d a ca f r a e i l r eeierl4uiryy ei`Jited by Mr. GLADSTON E h a d su b s id ed, into the case brought forward eatth a mat s of evidence to substantiate all the arguments on behalf of the bill tnat there could be but one result. It is worthy of notice, that in the principal difference of opinion which took place in the cogi tations of the committee, a division took place in which the greater part of those who supported - Mr. GLADSTONE'S view of the case were his original opponents, while those on the other side had been all along favourable to the measure. Mr. GLAD. STONE himself cited this singular fact as a proof of the impartiality with which the committee had examined into the matter. The point on which its members were at issue on the occasion referred to was one of considerable ireportance, and the question was whether the assurance created under the bill should be a property transferable by law. The Chancellor of the Exchequer took the affirmative side, and it was happily decided in his favour, since many instances might arise in which the operation of such a permissive clause might be very advantageous. Other changes were made in the bill, many of them of a restrictive cha racter, which never had the effect of removing the objections made to it. Mr. i.SOTIIERON ESTCOURT, who at first made many such objections, now ex presses hieeself as being most anxious for its sec. oe 2 s• "He had feared that the Government was likely to interfere with private enterprise, but the introduction of words limiting any payment made after death to the sum of £lOO quite removed that fear. Teen he had been apprehensive that the bill would injuriously affect those establishments and associations which are got up and managed exclu sively by working men. This objection was removed by the enactment that no contracts for payments made at death should be for less than £2O, so that the opposite dangers are guarded against by these two limitation clauses. The stipulation that the tables on which payments are calculated shall be based on a 3 per cent. rate tended still further to remove any idea that the Government scheme would compete injuriously with fairly established indepen e dent companies. Such companies have little to fear from a scheme whose profits are so small, whose rat e of interest so low, and whose operation is confined within such strict limits. On the other hand, there can be no doubt that it offers most solid and lasting advantages to the prudent and industrious. It is especially useful for young men of the working class, who, before they marry can thus lay up a store and ensure their families from destitution in case of their death. The amount ensured for would enable a working man's widow to enter upon some respectable means of gaining a livelihood, would help her to apprentice her children, to pay her rent, and provide for any other expenses contingent on her husband's illness and death. Mr. GLADSTONE decided that the condition attached to savings banks deposits was not applicable to these annuities, so that the fact of efft.cing an insurance under this act will not hinder the insurer from depositing any savings he may make in an ordinary savings bank. Working men will not be slow to find out the ad vantages which it oilers to them ; and we trust it may tend, by its successful operation, greatly to diminish that distress and destitution which so often adds heavily to the weight of a domestic be. reavement in the labouring classes, and the pros- pect of which for those dear to him must often em. bitter the last hours of a working man. ABD-EL-KADER is about take up bi 3 relidence on the estate at Biraboubeblah in the Isthmus, which has been given to him by the Suez Canal Company. THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION mill be opened in the evening, as cf late years, at the end of the 0 041 week of its Colltilli,l4l2Ce, 913, the 27th but. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1864. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [itEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] REJECTION OP THE ENGLISH PROPOSALS BY PRUSSIA. FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN, TUNE 22. Prussia rejects the English proposals relative to the line of demarcation in Shleswig. She a l so rejects the arbitration of any Power represented at the Conference. Prussia will not recognise the decision of any arbitrator as binding, but will take it in into consideration. A prolongation of the armistice will be accepted by Prussia, but not for less than two months. It is believed that the last sitting of the Con ference will take place to-day, and that hostilitiei will be resumed on Monday. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JUNE 22. The eemi-cfacial Vienna papers of tnis morning are in favour of the arbitration in the Dano- Germanic cir estion being submitted to the Emperor Napoleon. AMERICA. QUEENS TOWN, JUNE 22. The Inman steamship Etna, from New York on the 11th inst., arrived here at 5.31 a.m. to-day. She brings 223,836 doll. in specie, 164 mails, and the United States mails. Twenty-seven of her passengers were landed here. The Etna proceeded for Liverpool at 5.4 , ..$ a.m. Her news has been anticipated. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 22. The North German Lloyd steamship New York, Captain Wenke, sailing hence to-day for New York, with the German, French, and English mails, takes out 118 saloo❑ passengers and a large cargo, including 18 boxes of jewellery from Havre, value £8,940. SAXONY AND THE DUCHIES DRESDEN, JUNE 22. The First Chamber in yesterday's sittlng una nimously adopted the declaration of the Chamber of Deputies opposing the division of Schleswig. CALCUTTA AID CHINA MAILS, SUEZ, TUNE 21. The Rangoon, with the above n 1 ails, reached Suez at 10 p.m., this day, OUTWARD MAILS OF 4TH TO 10TE JUNE. The Simla, with the above mailP, left Suez on Sunday night (19th.) FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 22. The Conslieutionel of to-day, in an article signed by M. Paulin Simayrac, stated that the loss of the Alabama has caused great agitation. All the letters from Cherbourg test:fs to Ole profound regret pre vailing in that town at tt ge Event, The Constitution al3O adds that from one end of France to " .sie other the same feeling obtains, and that it '.a the generous Lature of the French charac. tP .r which always urges the nation to display their r sympathy for the weak and their admiration for unfortunate bravery. BOURSE, June 21.—The market continues dull, but with previous prices maintained, Threes, for the Account, being now unvaried at 66fr. se. Mobilier have slightly receded, having been last done at 1,062 f. 150 c. Railway Market inanimate. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 93 50 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 05 Credit Mobilier 1037 50 Do, end month 1057 60 Bank Shares 3395 Credit k oncier 1235 Roman LULL Italian Loan 69 65 Do. end month 69 65 Ditto Threes .. 43 New Mexican .... 56 25 Russian .A.ustrian Spanimh Threes 5l 25 Home Debt Deferred ~ 45 25 Cash. Account. Orleans ...... Northern .... Lyons and l'leditsrranean 877 50 .. 882 50 New ditto SJutheru 5 —7( Western Eastern Sardinian ............ 25 ~ r Austrian Lombard o North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona 645 - .. 648 75 500 - 460 .. 462 50 366 25 367 50 406 25 .. 408 75 525 - .. 526 25 437 50 .. 440 - 533 75 .. 5 0 7 50 General Garibaldi, The following translation of a letter has been sent to us for publietion : TO THE DIRECTOR OF TEE " MOVIMENTO." In the supplement to No. [37 of your newspaper, under the head of " England," you quote an article of the ..11 - ortiing Post, to which I feel myself called upon to reply as follows 46 Political associates and intimate friends, —You would do me a most signal favour if you would have the goodness to share with me the deep gratitude that I feel and that 1 owe to all those Englishmen whom 1 met and with whom I associated in their noble country, from the honest sons of labour to the illustrious men w h o preside over its Gove rn ment, " Know, then, that I decided upon visiting E ng land in order to pay her a sacred d e bt o f gra tit u d e , and that I with drew when I thought p ro p er t o d o so , w ithout any instiga tion whatever. " As to those under whose roof I was an honoured guest, it will never be possible for me to thank than sufficiently for the exceeding courtesy which they so splen didly lavished on me." Be so good as to publish the preceding, and consider me, yours, &c,, G, GARIBALDI. Caprera, May 22, HEALTH OF LONDON. (Rom the Rigiater•Ganera?'s Report,) The total number of deaths in London in the week that ended last Saturday was 1,299. The average number for the 24th week in ten years, 1854-63 is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,173. The excess in the present return above the estimated number is considerable—it amounts to 123. Measles continues to be the most prevale nt in t he epidemic class of dise ases . It was f a t a l i n the and week sinc i e n that time the in the th f e secondollowi following weekek of they May r there oseto wse7r: 50 deaths from it ; in weekly mortality has been of nearly the same amount. Measles prevails ch:ctly in the East districts, Six deaths from it were recorded in the Shoreditch district, Tin Bethnal green, 6 in IV hitechapel, 7 in St. George-in-the-East, 9 in Mile-end Old•town, and 4in the Poplar district. Five children died of the same disease in the Goswell-street sub district, Three children of a dock labourer, aged respectively 6 months, 9 years, and 12 years, died of measles at 84, Hare street, Bethnal-green, and three other children in the same family are lying dangerously ill with the same complaint. Diarrhoea now discovers a slight increase. The widow of a warehouseman, aged 63 years, died on the 14th inst., at 47, Northampton-road, Clerkenwell, of pulmo nary consumption, accelerated by the want of the necessaries of life. The son of a shipwright, aged 8 months, died on the 11th inst., at 231, High-street, Wapping, from bronchitis, acce lerated by want of nourishment through poverty. A labourer in an oilcloth factory was suffocated when sleeping in a heated room used for drying floorcloths. A boy died from inflammation of the brain caused by a pea lodging in his ear. A commercial traveller, aged l 8 years, died from drinking a bottle of French brandy at a draught. A girl, aged 6 years, died of abscess of the windpipe from swallowing a piece of ivory, Last week the births of 912 boys and 864 girls, in all 1,776 children, were registered in London. In the 10 ccr respondinl weeks of the years 1864.63 the average number (corrected) was 1,856. GRAND NIGHT FETE IN THE PARK OF VER. SAILLES.-0a the evening of Sunday, July 3d, wi!l be held at the larga Basin of Neptune, in the magnifi cent park of Versailles, the splendid night fate, which has excited very much interest in former years. The beautiful fountains flying in the electric light, the majestic alleys abundantly illuminated with lamps of various colours, an ample display of all sorts of fireworks in the air, and also on the waters, such as to creato a magic, unparalleled spectacle which every foreigner visiting Paris should make a point of seeing. LITERATURE, William Shakespeare. By Victor Hugo. Trans lated by A, Baillot. One vol., pp. 366. Hurst and Blackest. A magnificent rhapsody in glorification of Shak spere has here been penned by the illustrious author of ".Les Mieerablea." Yet—glorification of Shak spere though it is, and issued to the world though it has been in the year of the Tercentenary of the Poet's Birth—the work, as the writer himself takes occasion to notify expressly at the very outset, was originally designed by him to further another pur pose altogether. Considered purely with reference to that first intention of the author's on undertaking the composition of this work, it might be described not inaptly as a grand and prolonged flourish of trumpets upon the issue to the world of Victor Hugo's son's translation into French of the writ ings of Shakepero. Victor Hugo birnsclf says of the book—which, as will be seen above, he desigoates simply upon his title-page " Shakespeare" that its true title should be Apropos to Shakespeare. Nevortiteless—though ho thinks so and says so—we, for one, think not. We regard each of these two suggested titles as distinctly a misnomer. The one of them quite as much a mis nomer as the other ; second thoughts for once, here, being no better than first—the old proverb to the contrary, nevertheless, notwithstanding. Although there are here, for example, upwards of 360 goodly pages, octavo, it is surprising to find how few of them aro dedicated expressly to William Shak spere. Less than thirty recount anew the little there is known in regard to his "Life." That— leading off the first of the Three Parts into which the work is divided ! Part the Second, in its turn, leads off with less than thirty pages about the "genius" of Shakspere. The rest of the book being not so much apropos to Shakspere, as M. Victor Hugo would wish us to believe, as apropos to nearly every great man, ancient, mediaeval, and modern —personages as incongruously associated together in such an astounding galiiMaufry of panegyric, as Orpheus and Rabelais, as Job and Kant, es Hermes and Beethoven, as St. Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles and Montgolfier the sereonaut, as Isaiah and Moliere, as Phialias and Izekie',, as Socrates and Washington. The whole 'or this extraordinary composition constituting in effect a sort of incoherent apotheosis of the Human Race as typified in its Representative Men. That there are passages of resplendent eloquence in a work having so wide a range, is only what any one might reasonably have regarded as inevitable, emanating, as the volume does, from the hand of such a master of rhetoric as M. Victor Hugo—hina selfPoet, Orator, Novelist, Publicist, Critic, Man of Letters, and Man-of-Politics, if not actually Statesman and Philosopher as well, all rolled into one. Yet—admitting this—recognising the genius squandered over these pages—appreciating to the full the varied intellectual power manifested at uncertain intervals throughout this elabo rate and lengthy monologue—we mast still avow quite frankly that we look upon the work as a whole as unworthy alike of its great writer and of the yet greater theme upon which that great writer has therein so eloquently but so incoherently rhapso dized. As a whole, we repeat, the Book appears to us to be unworthy both of Victor Hugo and of William Shakspere. The author has himself evi denced, as we conceive, his own conscious ness of the insufficiency of hie labours here —where he: candidly confesses that, in all this, he is indulging in a sort of wild extravagance. Asking—when he says so—Why for once in a way he should not be allowed so to do. In other words, it is as though, out of a wilful desire to indulge in a kind of an intellectual gallop over all creation, he had fairly flung the reins upon the neck of that lightning-eyed, thunder-footed Pegasus of his, which at the first page, as it were, ho has bestridden at a bound. Naturally, again, we would even say, ine vitably, while careering thus over so boundless an expanse of themes, the hoofs of this for once wholly untrameiledPegasus of Victor Hugo's, strike thoughts out of the very duet, as it were, now one by one, now in showers end cascades of light—` like sparks into the darkness." Turning lightly, carelessly over these alternately son bre and flaming leaves nomi nally about Shakspere, but really de omnibus rebus et quibusdarn aliis, let us catch hap-hazard some of these same flitting sparks of light as they glitter out upon our recognition " Homer is the huge poet child. The world is born. Homer sings. He is the bird of this aurora." " Juvenal whips with cutting thongs; Dante scourges with flames. Juvenal condemns; Dante damns." " Music is the vapour of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought." " The theatre is a crucible of civilization." " The Greek drama had occasionally strophes as powerful as swords. It rushed on the scene wearing the helmet. It was an ode around cap-i-pie. Take, however, for once, a longer passage, as affording a far more signal illustration of the abounding beauty and eloquence lavished by Victor Hugo upon this wayward and wandering dis quisition of his apropos to Shakspere. Take his definition of some omng the countless marvels noticeable in "Hamlet." He has already remarked upon the strange reality which characterises poeti cal creations. WLereupon he seizes the occasion to observe that there is no more striking evidence that it is so than this very type— HAMLET. Hamlet has nothing belonging to an abstraction about him. He has been at the University ; he has the Danish rudeness softened by Italian politeness ; he is small, plump, somewhat lymphatic; he fences well with the sword, but is soon out of breath. Ho does not care to drink too soon during the assault of arms with Laertes, probably for fear of producing perspiration. After having thus supplied hie personage with real life, the poet can launch him into full ideal. There is ballast enough. Other works of the human mind equal " Hamlet," none surpasses it, The whole majesty of melancholy is in Hamlet, An open sepulchre from which goes forth a drama, this is colossal. Hamlet, is to our mind, Shake speare's chief work. No figure among those that poets have created is more poignant and stirring. Doubt counselled by a ghost, that is Hamlet. Hamlet has seen his dead father and has spoken to him. Is he convinced ? No, he shakes his head. What shall he do ? He does not know, His hands clench, then fall by his side. Within him are conjectures, sys tems, monstrous apparitions, bloody recollections, vene ration for the spectre, hate, tenderness, anxiety to sst sasd not to act, his father, his mother, his duties in contradictiot to each other, a deep storm. Livid hesitation is in his mind. Shakespeare, wonderful plastic poet, makes the grandiose pallor of this soul almost visible. Like the great larva of Albert Durer, Hamlet might be named "Melan cholia," Ho also has above his head the bat which flies embowelled, and at his feet science, the sphere, the compass, the hour-glass, love, and behind him in the horizon an enormous terrible sun which seems to make the sky but darker. Nevertheless at least one half of Hamlet is anger, trans port, outrage, h urr i cane, sarcasm to Ophelia, malediction on his mother, i nsu l t to himself. He talks with the grave diggers, nearly laughs, then clutches Laertes by the hair in the very grave of Ophelia and stamps furiously upon the coffin, Swordthrusts at Polonius, swordthrusts at Laertes, swordthrust s a t Cl au di us. From ' time to time his inaction is torn in twain, and f rom the rent comes forth thunder. He is tormented by th at possible life, intermixed v,ith reality and chimera, the anxiety of which is shared by all of us, There is in all his actions an expanded somnambulism. One might alm os t cons i der his brain as a formation ; there is a layer of suffering, a layer of thought, then a layer of dreaminess. It is through this layer of dreaminess that he feels, comprehends, learns, perceives, drinks, eats, frets, mocks, weeps, and reasons. There is between lite and him a transparency ; it is the wall of dreams; one sees beyond, but one cannot step over it. A kind of cloudy obstacle everywhere surrounds Hamlet. Have you ever whilst sleeping had the nightmare of pursuit or flight, and tried to hasten on, and felt anchylosis in the knees, heaviness in the arms, the horror of paralysed hands, the iecpossibility of movement ? This nightmare Hamlet undergoes whilst waking. Hamlet is not upon the spot where his lite is. Ho has ever the appearance of a man who talks to you from the other side of a stream. He calls to you at the same time that he questions you. He is at a distance from the catastropl 3 in which he takes part, from the passer by whom he interrogat e s, f rom th e t h oug ht that he carries,. from the action th a t h e p er f orms. He seems not to Mum even what he gi lads. It is isolation in its h ghest degree. It is the loneliness of a mind, even more than the loftiness of a prince. Indecision is in fact a solitude. You have not even your will to keep y o u c om p an y. It is as if your own self was absent and had left you there. The burden of Hamlet is less rigid than that of Orestes, but more undu lating ; Orestes carries predestination, Hamlet carries fate. And thus apart from men, Hamlet has stillin. him a something which represents them all. Agnosco fratrem. At certain hours, if we felt our own pulse, we would have conscience of his fever. His strange reality is our own reality after all. He is the funeral man that we all are in certain situations, 'Unhealthy as he is, Hamlet expiesees a permanent condition of man. He represents the discona fokt of the soul in a life rhieh is not sufficiently adapted to it. He represents the shoe that pinches and stops our walking; the shoe is the body. Shakespeare frees him from it, and he is right. Hamlet—prince if you like, but king never—Hamlet is incapable of governing a people, he lives too much in a world beyond. Ou the other ham; be does better than to reign; he is. Take from him his family, his country, his ghost, and the whole adventure at Elsinore, and even in the form of an inactive type, he remains strangely terrible. That is the consequence of the amount of humanity and the amount of mystery that is in him. Hamlet is formidable, which does not prevent his being ironical. He has the two profiles of destiny. In all which there is, as we take it, much of subtle criticism. As there is also, abundantly dis cernible in otter portions of the work, in which the great French poet descants upon divers other among the marvellous creations of the Great Poet not of England merely, not of moth? n Europeans even, but of the vast and count less :ace of Humanity. Othello, for example, and Cordelia—Falstaff and Mucbeth— Portia and Ingo—with the rest, not alike, but in the widest imaginable way dissimilar. In• asfnuch as the book wily, doubtless, ac complish its primary object, it may be pronounced successful. It will, without doubt, serve to fix the general attention both here in Eng land and yonder in France, upon the dawning literary exploit of the author's accomplished eon, namely, the latter's translation (for the first time worthily) of the immortal works of William Shak spere. Otherwise, the book here under con sideration is little better than a superb failure. It is so wondrous in art, and yet so flawed and incomplete, that it is more unsatisfactory than a torso just issued as a torso from the hand of some consummate sculptor. It is as if a Praxitiles had preseated to the world quite newly from his atelier, just fresh from his wonder-working chiso,tsTneseus as marred in form, and yet as marvellous i❑ anatomy ( what there is of it) as the Theseus of the Elgin Marbles ! No hands—mere stumps ! No feet--again mere stumps of limbs l Here and there the wondrous surface jagged and splintered. The heroic visage itself—noseless ! As faulty, yet as noble,in its outline is this august, yet, at the same time, this grotesquely incomplete e%Ji'ses of Shakspere. We read it at once provoked and delighted. It seems at one and the same moment—all through—to captivate our imagination and to outrage our judgment. And it is significative of the unsatisfactory bearing of the whole of this oratorical rhapsody in honour of Shakspere and of a good many others besides Shakspere, that it closes the enumeration of the great names the author therein especially desires to eulogize by the mention of one so holy and so divine, that the mere allusion to it here among those who, in spite of their won drous genius, are, after all, the mereest mortals, sounds to us, reads to us, startles us, torments us like nothing less than a flagrant and certainly a wholly uncalled-for profanity. Southern Independence, Last evening a public meeting was held at the Town Hall, Ashton-under-Lyne, "to take into consideration the propriety of memorialising Go vernment to at once acknowledge the independence of the Southern States of America." The chair was occupied by Dr Lees. About 800 people were cresent. The Chairman said that the crisis at which American affairs have now arrived justified the people of this country in expressing an opinion on the subject. The present attack upon Richmond, by General Grant, was the fourth or fifth that the Northern army had made; and if it failed the time would then arrive when European Governments should step in between the combatants. The Chair man concluded by reading a letter from the R►ev. J. P. Hopps, Dukinfield.who expressed sympathy with the Southern States.—Dr Vernon moved a resolu tion affirming that the time la',d come when the people of that town were entitled to express an opinion on the matter.—Mr. C. Brook seconded the resolution, which was carried by a large majority. —The Rev. F. H. Williams moved a resolution ex- pressing an opinion that the Southern States had justly won their right to a Government of their own choice; and that the timely recognition of such right by the Government of England, followed as it probably would be by other European Go vernments, would, under the present circumstances, tend to hasten the conclusion of the unjust and cruel warfare which is being waged by the Federal against the Confederate Government ; and that meeting accordingly respectfully submitted to her Majesty's Ministers the propriety of taking such steps to that end as they might think prudent in concert with other European Powers. He also moved that if the resolution was carried, it should be forwarded to Mr. Lindsay, M.P., in order to strengthen his position when he brought forward his promised resolution on tlis subject in the House of Commons• He said that after three years of strife, during which the success and gallantry of the south had been every day manifested, and whose cause had been illustrated by such men as Jack son, Beauregard, toe gallant but bloody Longstreet, and Captain Semmes—(applause)—it was time the cause of the Confederates was recognised. The professed neutrality which this country had pur sued was, as Mr. Bright described, a " friendly neutrality," but, unfortunately, it was on one side ; and it was but an illustration of that neutrality which this country witnessed the other day when the Kearsage sunk the Atabxma with shells manu factured in Birmingham, and cannon forged in the , arsenals.of England. (Hear, hear.) If the recog nition was granted, it wou.d be followed by a renewed prosperity to the people of Ashton, and by an extension of free trade principles to the Southern States. Mr. E. Hemingway seconded the motion, which was carried amidst loud ap plause. On the motion of Mr. G. Mellor, seconded by the Rev. R. V. Macdone, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the proceedings, which lasted little more than an hour, terminated. Ths Etna hca arrived from New York with £214,70. _ _ Th e foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon ware rather lower. An arraDgerneot was completed yesterday for the union of the baning firms of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Co,, and Messrs. Curries and Co. The united b u : ! deesti will, after the 31;.'h inst., be carried on, at 67, Lou:bard-street, uweler the firm of Glyn, Mills, Curries, and Co. The share ecrOcates of the Provincial Banking Corporation are ready for delivery in ezoLange for the bankers' receipts. Mn. COBDEN AND THE ROCHDALE REFORM ASSOCIATION. — Tho following letter, in reply to an address from the Rochdale Reform Association, has been forwarded by Mr. Cobden to Alderman Stewart :—" June 14.—Dear Sir—l am duly favoured with your letter,fo enclosing the resolution of the general committee ?intent', London, RochWe Eeform Association, informing lion of the GOnservatives to bring forwardmae of candidate of the next elec,:ion. I have since had tho of c ai PP y oppononCs reading the very i t ; . !land frank expladnearti nthdiedate at views ou public affairg, d n to endeavour to efface that, at a time when it is the, ~artier, and to inculcate i°tucreditable to him I fa c s o h n i s o i the old division lines of politicioant longer difference in the the theory that there is no h as scorned tn.at spirit of opinions of public t suc a nature cts pronliee, and grf.n and intelligible issue between him and to afford a very clear meeZrebsesi on to views o myself, An el ectoral contest, when great principles which purify the political atmosphere are M stake, is an ordeal not wholly unprofitable, and I accept with cheerfulness my share of the coming struggle, leaving the is ue with confi dence in the hands of the constituency: Thanking most cordially the body over which you preside ter it s hea , tY assurance of support, I remain, dear Sir, you:si &C. , ED. COBDEN." THE EFFECTS OF WAR.—A native of Worcester, writing to his brother in that city, gives a brief but perfect picture of individual loss during the present terrible war in America :—" I have made nothing during this war by my hard - earned labour, but, on the contrary, have lost all my property. My farm was ih the valley of Mission Ridge, and a part of the battle ground. The fight was over my pro perty, and destroyed my fine house, stable and barn. The waggons and live stock were taken by the soldiers. My fence round 15 acres of land was also destroyed ; and still to make it worse, I lost all my timber land, so that I have not a tree left to make a fence rail. All is a perfect waste, and desolation reigns around that portion of country which was previously so flourishing. The land is no use to me now. Ido not think I shall do anything with it any more such is my bad luck. 1 did not save a piece of furnii tare or a rag of clothes ; I did not save 25 cents worth of all I had in this world. - -.6i?minyhon Post. tan sllllll}l., HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 21. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Higbnes e the Princess Helena, drove out yesterday afternoon attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur also tock a drive in an open carriage and four. The Earl and Countess De la Warr arrived at the Castle and had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Royal family. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High heeses the Prince and Princess Louis of HEW , Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, went to Buckitigham Palace this snorting, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, Made.. moiselle de Grancy, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieu tenant-Colonel the Hon. D. Ros. Afterwards Princess Beatrice visited th e Dean a Westminster and Lady A. Stanley, attended by Mademoiselle Norelle. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse attended the evening strvice at St. George's Chapel on Sunday last. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstonof left the Castle this afternoon for Buckingh am Palace, Viscount Palmerston and the Earl of Clarendon had audience of the Queen at Buckin gham p a lace: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales visited her Majesty. The infant Prince Albert Victor al2o came to the Palace to see her Majesty. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princes° Louis of Hesse and Princess Beatrice, left Bne kiDg , ham Palace at 6 o'clock and visited thei r Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Airdies 5t Marlborough House. Thence her Majesty proceeded in an open car ' riage and four to the Paddington Station for Windsor Castle, attended by the Marchioness °f Ely, the Hon. Mrs, Bruce, the Hon. Horatia Stop ford, the Hon. Harriet Phipps, 11Iademoiselle de Grancy, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred accomPenLed the Queen to Windsor. The Marchioness of Ely has succeeded the 'Joan. Less of Desert as Lady in Waiting. Lord de Tabley and Colonel the Hon. Allg u 'l ;uB Liddell have succeeded Lord Rivers a nd lim y General Sir Henry Bentinck as the Lora and Gr a;111 in Waiting. The Prince and Princess of Wales. ce The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Pr in Alfred, rode out on horseback yesterday forecoin:. The Prince and Princess of Wales afterwar ds toy-1; a carriage drive. In the evening the Prince of Wales went t° the Adelphi Theatre, attended by Lieut.-Col. ElePPel. Recruits for the Army. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. you allow me a small space in your colurg to correct an error into which " Common Sense" has fall ell' in a letter which appeared in The Sun yesterday, on :t ll° subject of recruits for the army. " Common Sense" argue that the scourge and the brand alone deter men from ent l " ing the army. Now as flogging and branding are only r e ' sorted to when all other punishments fail, o r, in ot her words, when a man is incorrigible, Common Se would argue that all those who enlist, or rather wh o ar e at present prevented from enlisting through fear of 'oo s° ' punishments, are incorrigible ; but no well-conducted Wan r ever runs the slightest risk of being either flogged f branded. The British soldier is taken far better ciire ° now than he was 50 years ago. Every indulgence is gle e ''' . to the deserving veteran— every encouragement the aspiring recruit. There must be a scale of punisb.rnes t ' and that scale of punishment is not severe. It is only •Whc 3 a man has proved himself undeserving of indulgence, ancl unworthy of milder treatment, that he is flogged as A scoundrel or branded as a deserter, It is not for th,e 6° - vernment but for the soldiers themselves, by goc d an d steady behaviour, to exterminate the scourge as ed tie brand from the British army. Tuesday, June 21. UNCOMMON SE: WHO'S GRIFFITH ! (From the Owl.) The walls and other public places in the nci giv bcurhood of the Metropolis, that are habitui illY covered with posters conveying much interes:tivb; information in a type which those who run l'a% read, have for the last 18 months been placar de" with the pregnant question— " Wlio's GRIFFITH" ? The question thus immediately addressed ti British Public has naturally given rise to speculation, and hitherto has defied solution. believe we are in a position to supply the 6 01 ve id It is to be found in the annals of Parliament. Stio however, any doubt upon the subject still Per; the minds of our readers, we would more L Ua larly call attention to the following notices, wt ` 1 ; 0 appeared 'on the Parliamentary Notice Pa P eV Thursday : parti NOTICES OF MOTION, Mr D. Griffith—To ask whether there wou ld be Y°. an ni b jection to the whole of the order book being sent to tue-- berg weekly. le cl Mr D. Griffith—To call attention to the circular i 3 by the Horse Guards for the recruiting of the antlY• p Mr D. Griffith—To move that a select committee Df3 t. pointed to inquire into the practice of limiting the aPP i " ment of Postmaster. General to a Peer or P riv y Counei ,;„i Mr D, Griffith—To call the attention of th e First L° rd it the Treasury to the dissatisfaction that might ariseif should appear that, by moans of a want of decision. 3% energy. his Government should have fa il e d in bringit '— Danish question to a satisfactory settlement. Mr D. Griffith—On Civil Service Estima tes, Be. reiltil Department. Vote 3— To call attention to the negl of the Post-cffice authorities in not taking a dvantage postal facilities afforded by railways between Ilun6:erfcr and Devizes, Add to the above the astounding fact that Ter P c ; ffith the evening spoke no l e ss tial a 1 ti mesti in on Committ same ee of Supply; that this ren a l i s able statesman, in addition t o his tercu l ea n Par mentary mentary labours, is to bs d ail y see n practising Wimbledon with an amou nt of parse vera nce 00` as one 01 skill which will insure his being returned the Commons ' shootin g E.even ; and it wilt, Nc e think, readily be admitted that Griffith of the, walls can be none other than the hon. memb•Jr for SE:UW.3'S ILLNXsS OF MR, IL c QPOONER, Y' respected townsmen, the senior member for North ,s —lt is vvith deep regret we learn that our Ou ch' wickshire, is seriously ill. The state of Mr S 1, 1 : t r .; although t a n d o e u fey gh t e e . r x d c a e e y d , is such as to eause the utmost anxiety to his large 'el ° 01 friends. We e're glad, however, to be able to say,arge troll- , i3.° ci bet i t r e i r s , member Was a le, itnhgalty the w at — ll. Birmil2gha il 6 a' - ' 1 eit:lß THE SICKING OF THE ALABAMA,-60TJT1101" TON, T ,- ue.day.—Cs pt. Semmes, who was visited IV several u gentlemen in the early part of the day, left Kels'o'Y': tel this afternoon le, - a country residence, to g et 6 1 few days' repose and quiet, being in a somewhat exhalOte" state from the wound in his t.nd and expdstue in the wit ,1.; e la Mr Macon, the Confederate o gent, returned to London 1.1 the 11 30 a.m, train to-day. „1,-eat curiosity is tell a s to tb ° „1,-eat and c ondition of the Kearsage, resPiii4 which no definite intelligence can 1, e obtained. IItIALS OF NEW LIFEBOATS. —Yesterday b°111: , at i b f ab ,!ory harbour trials were ni,lde w ith tw° ft fi r lifeboats in the Regent's Canal Dock, Limehouse, tiDcl:t the superinteno,2tice of the t , fficers of the 1 \rational Lifel)°;: Institution. One 0. 1 the lifeboats is 36 1 eet long, an d , s ide be stationed at Holybe,:d, and will, wilco. beatpracticaet is I.'•-qed in conjunction with a steam tug. Ti'm seecend t 32 feet .. I t l length, and is to. be, p.'aced at Dov,4 1 30t11 b° 0 14 13 ; when tested, showed that they possesse hette jolt:7o'o4 qualities of self-righting and self-ejecting; vatei' i.1 ) ::;a in the operation in an eminent desree. The 11 , ' IY 00 ' boat, which is name d The Princess cf Wa of les,Li ve": ocell liberal gift of Josep h Leather. Esl., f A the cost oor who had pi eviously g iven the Institution ss' lifeboat, and the cost o f tho. Dov: r boat had heel.' idu°',lll.o co ll e cted in Wiltshire by Ca p tain A. J. Reed, it.N.' Ore l a tter boat is called the Royal Wiltshire. There pl_ o.. sent at the trials yesterday a large number of persons, i...,0 eluding Captain Kremen, of the Swedish Royal Navy. •,,_ had been deputed by his Government to visit loglantl, b , l: the view of examining sonic of the Institution's Lite 11 0 ; Stations. • lie had already seen several of them, at' l , 1 ,4 expressed himself highly pleased with their etficienOY ' completeness,